The Epic Soviet Moon Landing Prank

[@bodamian_bg]

"Hey you, space hooligan! " - as truthful as is. *:)))

[@jasonmitchell9622]

Bowman lol

[@kbtechandmedia]

"we don't take too kindly to your type around here!"

[@DBNIGHT]

I never heard this story before . How interesting . Good job

[@sodburyhouse]

That's because it never happened LOL ! ! ! !

[@WhiteJarrah]

@@sodburyhouse So why is it documented in literature? Eugene Cernan mentions it in his _Last Man on the Moon_ book.

[@Mooseracks]

You did hear about the fictionalized Apollo narratives?

[@zeusandathena4094]

Excellent video and information as usual. Thank you Dark Space 👍😊

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Incredibly difficult time for NASA. Russia could hide every single failure, but NASA had to do every launch in public...

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

NASA,,HA. The 53 million dollar a day budget can't get them "back" to the moon after 50 years.

[@hireahitCA]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp Sure NASA can develop such a mission if desired, it just isn’t the current priority. The “can’t” is because big pieces of the technology has moved on, and nobody is bothering to develop the companion technology that has no use since there is no current mission that would use it. $53 million/day is a drop in the bucket for the US government, for comparison the defence sector spends more than that per hour (and they also cannot go to the moon, because they also have no mission to do so, so they aren’t investing their resources any more than NASA is).

[@TheHistoryBird]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp Its called inflation. Part of Basic Economics. 53 Million doesnt have the same buying power today as it did 50 years ago.

[@PronatorTendon]

NASA already invested in heavy lift technology, and the designs were so complicated that every rocket was different and the engineers essentially had to be intimately acquainted with the each one's "personality" or the minor tweaks that were needed to get them in operating order. The technology died with the engineers who made those rockets, and it isn't worth the effort or expenditure to make such inconsistently manufactured rockets when superior technology is currently being developed. Once the government makes the initial investment and effort, it's up to the private sector to pick it up and run with it, much like the Mars rovers. In a couple decades it will be less of a negative ROI for corporations to take the next steps that are required. Any space development company that is worth the label would have developing von Neumann probes as one of their priorities. As technology currently stands, that would involve developing 3d printing robots that can build other 3d printing robots using powdered metal sintering. Designs for bots that would harvest raw materials from asteroids, refine said material into the required powdered metal alloys, and create solar panels from mined silicon could see massive structures built in periods of only a few months. Huge structures can maneuvered using very small thrust bots that could move and attach themselves where needed. The man who heads the first company to do this would be the world's first multitrillionaire.

[@emman.5995]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp not their priority.

[@Hawk1966]

No loss of appetite. . . right up until the dissection that is. Then suddenly they weren't hungry, ever again.

[@jblob5764]

Yeah, I'm a but curious as to why they decided to keep them in a long fasting period.

[@Hawk1966]

@@jblob5764 They're Russians in the 60s they probably tried interrogation too.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@Hawk1966 by kgb turtles, that's why it took so long, under the pretext of making them fast

[@grantt1589]

Rip turtles

[@1312_PV]

@@jblob5764 I think the youtuber is confused. The tortoises were not fed before launch, neither or Earth or in space, so that any difference was attributable to spaceflight and not tortoises not eating due to stress, noise, vibration or a similar condition in Earth which would not affect humans instructed to eat. Upon arriving they were compared to the Earth-bound tortoises which had fasted too (and could handle it, the species can fast for weeks), and when the checks were complete they were fed to check for apetite. After some days, they were euthanized and dissected to do further checks.

[@davidluna8372]

Good presentation , thanks and keep up the good work !

[@Matched32Gaming]

I watch these videos every day keep making more please thank you grate pass time

[@carldunn2647]

get yr HAIR CUT

[@johns1625]

So the first two living beings to pass beyond the Earths moon were tortoises. That's awesome.

[@bjofuruh]

Yeah, they beat the rabbit.

[@briandenley]

Slow and steady wins the race….

[@davidluna8372]

The turtle beats the hare again !

[@archlich4489]

I hate that they made it back alive only to be starved and dissected. ☹

[@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow]

Its mentioned they resistant to Cosmic Radiation. This is never mentioned in other books or docs. So then, is man resistant to the same radiation?

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Looking back you just have to laugh. I have to give the Russians credit for imagination along with a sense of humor. It was a good prank on NASA.

[@XxTrigerHappyxX]

Russians? thats odd that country didnt exist yet

[@XxTrigerHappyxX]

@@bigboreracing356 How was russia around before 1991?

[@johnkonstantin4277]

@@XxTrigerHappyxX In Russia we call soviets russian. Don't care what others think.

[@XxTrigerHappyxX]

@@johnkonstantin4277 no sense that make

[@KINIVI210999]

*Soviets nations, only have of population was russians

[@beenchillin2yill197]

The soviets did a lil trolling🤏

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

The Americans trolled them back bigger and better with the fake Apollo missions.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp yeah, all the films of the moon landing are fake. Only the Moon Landing was real . The Reason = no place in the module for the of-the-time bulky cameras

[@andrewweaver2517]

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy so...... Ok, real? I'm confused by your reply

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@andrewweaver2517 there have been since the end of the cold war so much vilifying of the Americans for denying the whole world the red paradise, that one of the 1st post cold-war claims by America-haters was that the Moon Landing was fake.

[@alphakky]

Apollo 8 and 9 missions were swapped because of the belief the Soviets were going to the moon. 8 was to test the LM in Earth orbit, while 9 was to be the circumlunar flight.

[@michaelmcglynn5863]

The LM wasn't ready.

[@WhiteJarrah]

Actually, Apollo 9 was to be a repeat of the CSM-LM mission but in a high Earth orbit.

[@thomashughes_teh]

An English language short wave radio propaganda broadcast out of Cuba in 1973 mentioned the "Soviet Moon Landings" claiming there were many of them and naming the dates, names of crew members and other flattering details. The "show" was patterned after American news broadcasts of the time and even had commercial breaks that re-played captured recordings of nationally advertised products like cars and breakfast cereal and bogus sound bites from well known radio personalities. How do I know? I listened to it live on my grandfather's receiver. There was another "show" that would re-play news stories broadcast only minutes earlier , but with that characteristic slow deviant influence of near accuracy.

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

I get a kick out of those Apollo moon landing conspiracy theorists who think it was all done in a studio. But never considered how USSR would have kept on trying. At the least by sending a chimpanzee to the Moon and bringing him back safely from space.

[@sinisterminister6478]

In heavy Scottish accent, " What about the wee turtles".

[@lordbeermonster]

Epic trolling from the Soviets 😂

[@Nautilus1972]

The Soviet Union landed Luna 2 on the moon in 1959 - incredible achievement. They did almost everything first in space. They beat the USA at everything other than landing humans on the moon.

[@Pedro1745]

Well, as a professional soviet / russian space enjoyer I've come to help clear that up. Luna 2 was the first planned artificial crash on the moon Luna 3 was the first probe to send pics from the non visible side of the moon. The landiing was carried with luna 1 and several others after it. If I'm not mistaken, Luna 17 and 21 where the ones that carried the first space rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2.

[@2amSpeedMerchant]

Humans have never been to the moon. That hoax has been pulled apart so much that what is left is totally unbelievable. There's a stack of evidence against it, and nasa says it "lost" all the original tapes, telemetry data and all the blueprints for making the rocket, orbiter, lem, etc. And people still think NASA is legit. Bunch of lying crooks.

[@YBM2007]

@@2amSpeedMerchant your comment gave me aids

[@johnsamson9680]

@@YBM2007 I’m pretty sure both AIDS and Space are fake. Do your own reasearch…

[@YBM2007]

@@johnsamson9680 Ikr, NASA is like a magnet for all the super nuts conspiracy theorists. A little bit depressing to be honest - with access to all this information we should be advancing as a species

[@geepea101able]

If they used Hares instead of Tortoises, would the return flight been faster?

[@crewleaderprods]

"Hey you, space hooligan!!" Would have been more hilarious if he began shaking his fist at him

[@jimmyzhao2673]

I think the turtles would look so cute wearing their little crash helmets and cosmonaut suits.

[@WhiteJarrah]

6:03 It was actually President Lyndon Johnson who Frank Borman received the phone call from. Richard Nixon didn't take office until the following year.

[@nicsandee123]

Nice job Jarrah, are you over the Hoaxitus? Or is it still a bane?

[@Shifftee]

Now you know who gave NASA the idea of the Moon landing, except with using video too 😌

[@Boop__Doop]

If Russia had beaten them to the moon the Americans would've said no we were supposed to land on Mars not the moon

[@CPS747-8]

Those poor tortoises. I was hoping they'd stay alive till the end, but they ended up dissecting them. They could've had national Soviet heroes that would still live on (probably would still be alive today).

[@stefanpunct3003]

Russian rocket N1 was developped by Russian genius Koroljew to transport materials and structures to the orbit for constructing spacecrafts in the orbit for manned missions to Mars , like Wernher von Braun he wanted to go to Mars first, not to the moon. After the death of Koroljew the Soviet russian government decided without any clue to use the rocket for missioans to the moon , the rocket was "tuned" for the much longer journey - in relation to earth orbit - to the moon.

[@loopernoodling]

This is gold! Well done!

[@tommychong3269]

Love this channel

[@ericstromberg9608]

Ha ha ha, those goofy Rooskies! Good one, dudes.

[@jamielacourse7578]

Any Soviet astronaut you care to name has more balls than any of those American no- goodniks.....with a 90% explosion rate? Forget about it......

[@brianarbenz1329]

I can hear Slim Pickens sayin, “Well I’ve been to one county fair, a picnic and a rodeo and this is the damndest thing I’ve ever heard!”

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

So wait. All this just to prove that the tortise does win?

[@lexioncombine9403]

And, no one believes when I tell this story. Known about it for years.

[@johnmccaa7232]

@@lexioncombine9403 this is amazing

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

This degree of competition highlights how ludicrous is the idea that the Soviets would have remained mute if the Americans had faked the landings.

[@johanterblans8266]

That is a argument for the moon landing, not proof in itself.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@johanterblans8266 no. It disproves the hypothesis that there is a dramatic international conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of people in the US space program and an entire Soviet hierarchy determined to better the western political perspective by any means possible. If this were discussed in a court of law it would be sufficient ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.

[@johanterblans8266]

@@bob_the_bomb4508 lets agree to disagree.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@johanterblans8266 not really. You’re entitled to your own opinions but you’re not entitled to your own facts…

[@theofficialsirjonahharvey-5975]

@@johanterblans8266 You choosing to disagree is proof for how the whole flat earth/moon landing conspiracy is a waste of human intelligence. you were born into a body capable of almost anything, the apex predator, the conqueror of death, the conqueror of disease, the conqueror of evolution, and yet you chose to be ignorant, you are a google search away from millions of pieces of evidence that disproves your entire ideology and yet you chose to be ignorant, you are children not willing to listen to reason, you are presumably an adult yet you cant seem to differentiate from fact and fantasy, we have done feats that are arguably more remarkable that the moon landing, we are more than capable of going to the moon, and we are doing it again. We went to the moon. We don't need your opinion.

[@morgangallowglass8668]

Gotta love the Russian sense of humor.

[@randommadness1021]

8 channels!! Can't believe some people still believe that this is one guy putting out over 1 video each day for this long 😳🤣

[@delagum1]

Great tales I love good stories. Any chance of where you got all of the information? I would like to further investigate your drawn conclusions.

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

Books.

[@heavybreath]

One mistake Lyndon Johnson was president then, Nixon would not be elected until November 1968 and take office in January 1969

[@michaelbaka4777]

Don't know where you find all your stuff Dark, but keep 'em comin'!! Subbed to all the Dark channels, great viewing AND knowledge. Thanks!

[@michaelbrownlee9497]

The 2 brothers who picked up the transmissions of russians being burnt to death in orbit is everything. I think one of them was a female.

[@0therun1t21]

I love this story, watching a lunar eclipse right now!

[@radarplotextractor3168]

Last time I checked the moon was a satellite not a planet.

[@mogwaifan7094]

No. 22 and 37 should have been awarded the order of Lenin.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

I knew about many Russia first's during the space race yet this one is new to me. Thanks for the information

[@bogdanradulescu870]

Big thank you to german tech genius, Werner...

[@Nazzz65]

''Hey YOU!!! SPACE HOOLIGAN!!!'' You just can't make this stuff up! Meanwhile those tortoises selflessly gave their lives for the greater glory (and the bragging rights!) of The Soviet Lunar Space Program....

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

soviet cosmenautics aka cosmos cosmetics.

[@Nazzz65]

Yes indeed and those turtles were delicious too!!

[@jeffpeters5347]

Please do a story on the Chinese rocket failure that went over a valley & a village.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Pretty sure theres alot of those

[@BeaRrug66]

That photo of the cosmonaut was a photo of Alexi Leonov performing the first EVA!

[@BernhardStiftner]

Hang on, is that a soviet BESM-6 supercomputer in the background at 2:42?

[@Phase52012]

And there I was thinking you were going to tell the story of the 1936 Soviet Moon landing. ("First On The Moon". 2005).

[@MisteriosGloriosos922]

*Excellent video and information as usual. Liked Dark Space 👍😊*

[@Mike1064ab]

Supposedly one of the Zond missions was actually going to beat Apollo 8 to the moon. They actually had men on the pad but decided against a manned mission and sent it up unmanned and it came back successfully and then Apollo 8 beat them to the moon.

[@jimcampbell4738]

I don't know if it's true but I remember reading about the Apollo-soyuz mission in 1975. Supposedly, minutes after the two capsules separated and left on their merry way the NASA astronauts began broadcasting a recording of young women giggling in a shower. I like to believe it happened.

[@michaellawson5237]

Didn’t know I shared a birthday with this event only 30 years later

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Happy Birthday mate 🎁🎂!

[@automann4731]

Turns out being 23 and 38 wasn’t all that bad after all..

[@Olkv3D]

So much effort is put in to halting progress.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

absolutely in character

[@BaderFPV]

This mans talking like he’s presenting to a teacher for an A+

[@Waterdog553]

This is very interesting! I never even knew!

[@kyrkbymannen]

Did the turtles survive the splashdown? 😂

[@kennyfordham6208]

"He he! Oh those silly Russians and their silly space shenanigans!"

[@Damnedlegion40k]

1st, keep up the great work. The Wahine disaster in New Zealand?

[@kennyfordham6208]

( shakes finger) "You naughty space hooligans!"

[@johnwalker3044]

I have to say that I do like it , I can just imagine those Russians having a good chuckle to themselves when the US took the bait and ended up getting their knickers in a twist over this one. We don't always perceive the Russians as having a good sense of humour but they are only human just like the rest of us.

[@ste666666666]

Could of let the turtles live!, c'mon now!, they went to space & back give them a medal :-)

[@abdal.m4029]

"why is popovich reporting from the moon?" gotta love Nixon

[@jouhannaudjeanfrancois891]

And Kubrick declared: "Damn, that was way cheaper than my hoax..."

[@jeffreyvarela138]

Those crazy soviets always joking around

[@dwaynevenzon643]

For All Mankind almost happened

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

0:01 ''September 18th 1968'' ; 4:46 ''September 19th 1968'' ; 6:05 ''an angry phone call from President Nixon ...'' Must be a parallel universe.

[@WhiteJarrah]

Popovich's memory was obviously in error, that's what he said in his account featured in the book _The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team._ Must have meant President Johnson. Borman's trip to the USSR was also eleven months after Zond 5, not one.

[@robertzeurunkl8401]

Soviet Trolling level 11. Launch two turtles to orbit the moon, while broadcasting a fake moon landing? 4-Chan was outdone more than 50 years ago!

[@nagjrcjasonbower]

Best practical joke ever... Seriously the best cold war funny I can think of... 🤔😎🖖

[@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692]

Это просто розыгрыш бро

[@dextermorgan1]

We know(now)but it's still funny!

[@jeffreyvarela138]

"I will break u" Ivan drago rocky 4

[@josephcontreras8930]

Just think if the us and Soviets got togethet and joined forces and went to the moon together. The wall may have come down way earlier and just consider how more advanced we all would have become. Just something to consider..

[@dictatorenvy472]

Sounds like the narrator reads so fast it sounds like he is frantically diffusing a bomb. If there was a playback speed of .89 it would be perfect.

[@alexismiller8978]

So how do we know NASA didn't do the same thing that Russia did with their telemetry data

[@GospelOfTimothy]

I made a video that we never landed on the moon

[@monos70]

I love CCCP space program footage.

[@isaiahgray3057]

5:30 Russia figured it would troll the west with a giant "U MAD BRO?". Expert trolling.

[@aaronfrizzel3821]

Tell me more about Deke Slaton. Please.

[@themeantuber]

So, they faked a Moon landing too?! 😁 At least they didn't make it public 😂

[@rogerthomas169]

This is the main reason you can believe we actually landed on the moon...the russians never contested it.

[@ElementofKindness]

So this is the seed that eventually kicked off the whole faked Apollo Mission conspiracies we have today?

[@DL-kc8fc]

In very high probability, the story of the Russian "joke" is only from the imagination of the author, who glued this video from unrelated pieces for clickbait. :) No less, the Cold War was mostly about misinformation. On the one hand, failures were hidden and successes were exaggerated. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, UFO Roswell-type fantasies were given free passage to give the Russian the impression that the United States had magical technology from space. :) American runways were sunbathed with lamps and UFO models were placed on them so that the thermal sensors of Russian satellites could detect them better. :) The Russians traditionally built Potemkin villages. One for 18, the other for 20-2. But the prank of the fake landing on the moon has never really been recorded by anyone.

[@CarlosGunX]

Next up on this channel: The Epic NASA Moon Landing Prank.

[@adelestevens]

Such a shame the N1 programme was abandoned. Humans might be on Mars by now if such a heavy lift rocket existed.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Its a shame Energia was scrubed It WORKED, It could carry 100tons to Earth Orbit Strap the Block G, D Soyuz and LK to it, and you have a moon mission and with spare cargo capacity

[@SteveBueche1027]

I thought the Russians had their ship orbiting the moon while we landed?

[@desimonevd]

They sent an unmanned lander and sample return mission, Luna, ahead of Apollo 11. Unfortunately, it crashed while attempting to land.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@desimonevd spilling the fossilized beans.

[@davidgifford8112]

By 1968 N1 program was a long way behind Apollo, the USSR knew it had little to no hope of a human landing prior to 1970. However the the Zond/Soyuz had some prospect of at least a free return loop around the moon before the end of 1868. Cosmonauts lobbied their superiors for a chance to try. The Soviet space administration judged the risk of failure realistically too high to authorise. Unfortunately once Apollo 8 had orbited the moon, flying cosmonauts around the moon without getting into orbit no longer had any political value.

[@WhiteJarrah]

They had space programs in 1868? :P

[@carldunn2647]

" NINETEEN " 68

[@trollinginfirestorm6907]

Great video, make one for the US moon landing hoax as well ;>

[@LesSharp]

Wow, brilliant bit of trolling!

[@goldgeologist5320]

Not only the first to put a man on the moon, but still the only! But China is coming soon in that achievement. And I welcome them.

[@kmssamirkhan6270]

USSR was the only country that makes americans to think twice before doing something and vice versa

[@tstccnt6303]

IS fortunately.

[@bomat761]

Just for clarity, the Moon is not a planet. Editing is important.

[@hopewellsmit7819]

how odd the countries both got destined by some odd ness back then // dark space if a y t channel briefly contrived some sci f stuff? = why?

[@scottbreseke716]

The USA beat Russia to the moon, but you didn't talk about those who were waiting for them at the finish line.

[@chriszenier826]

Crewed or crude?

[@HinduWarriorForever]

*So this inspired NASA to fake it finally in 1969 when they failed miserably.*

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

SO....'Gamera', Did come from space....it came from da MOON!!!

[@tstccnt6303]

Maybe the story is even Stranger? Things that makes you go hmm..

[@UnstableAudioProductions]

Cool video. Just one tip: try speaking more slowly and with more expression.

[@SSmith-fm9kg]

Those pesky Soviets.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

why ? they're integrally in character.

[@soloperformer5598]

Where can the facts be found which support your story?

[@udonenomee2117]

The US government after a Russian moon mission: total hoax I’m sure. The US government after a giant moon mission success: how could you doubt such a thing? What kind of monster does that?

[@Shifftee]

Exactly. Plus I don't remember the US test-sending any animals to the Moon before sending people there

[@leonardgibney2997]

NASA says it has a pile of moonrock brought back by the Apollo crews. England's Jodrell Bank telescope monitored the Lunar Lander down onto the moon's surface. What more proof do you need we went to the Moon? Yet as something of a space enthusiast l struggle to see how it was done. I could list several reasons for why. Just think. Animals the Russians sent through the Vanallen Belts came back dead cooked by the radiation. Apollo Eleven's crew would be the first men to cross these Belts. Terrifying, they wouldn't have known if they would survive. Then they had to rendezvous with the Moon coming round at about 2,000 mph in its orbit. One mistake and they could've been lost in space or crashed into the moon's surface. The VTOL system used was never properly tested. Armstrong was nearly killed just months before liftoff to the moon testing it. A civil servant commissioned to write a report on the viability of the mission was killed in a car accident and his supposedly excoriating report disappeared. Gus Grissom called the mission ''a pile of junk" in which "we'll never get to the Moon". I could go on.

[@Shipwright1918]

@@leonardgibney2997 I can just as easily give you one big reason why we likely did land on the moon, no front page story on Pravda screaming for the world to see that the landings were faked. Seriously, the Soviets would have had a field day with a story like that. It should be noted that Gus Grissom was referring to the early version of the Apollo spacecraft in those statements, ultimately it was the death of Grissom and his crewmates in the Apollo 1 fire that led to a radical re-design of the craft to ensure it was up to the job. Ultimately up to you to decide for yourself. I'm of the opinion we went, the laser reflectors alone had to be placed by human hands and we're still using them today to measure the moon's distance from us, but we might've found a few things which may still be classified.

[@leonardgibney2997]

@@Shipwright1918 Thanks for the response. At least you didn't troll me like some people. I would describe myself as sitting on the fence with Apollo. I hesitate to insult the brave astronauts who have to face the hazards of space which l couldn't. My problem is l am sceptical about manned space flight in general, at least outside of LEO. The problem for NASA is that John Doe knows a lot more about the subject than 50 years ago. A question arose about how they managed to get the lunar Rover up there. NASA answered this by showing how it all folded up neatly into a package to be contained in a compartment and reassembled on the Moon. I really struggle with all this. For instance their equipment would have been bombarded by the Solar Wind all the while. In my experience that would have caused problems, like Elon Musk recently losing a bunch of satellites. Yet we're told everything worked faultlessly six times. You know how in life you have a kind of gut feeling things don't add up sometimes? Still, l can't be too dogmatic about it like e. g. Bart Sibrel who said he knew "for a fact" they never went to the Moon.

[@Shipwright1918]

@@leonardgibney2997 Well, the thing you have to remember is that the technology of Apollo was to a large degree, solid-state still, i.e. the electronics were mostly made up of actual circuits and physical relays as opposed to microchips and doing everything in software as it's done nowadays. Even the guidance computer, which did have early IC tech inside, was designed to be tonka-tough and pick up right where it had left off in case of a crash or restart. It had to be that reliable as it literally had people's lives depending on it, everything in Apollo was made that way. It should also be mentioned that none of the Apollo missions went perfectly, and often it took some serious brain power from the engineers in the back rooms, or via hotline connections to the manufacturers, etc, as well as some good luck and brainpower, to fix the various issues that cropped up. Apollo 11 famously had to deal with a computer error on the way down to the landing that could've aborted the mission, as well as a circuit breaker to arm the ascent engine so the astronauts could leave that was accidentally broken, in the end a felt-tip pin had to be pushed into the hole to trip the switch. Apollo 12 was struck by lightning, twice, during launch, requiring an obscure switch to be thrown to enable Houston to keep getting telemetry from the launch, otherwise they would've had to abort. The TV camera got accidentally pointed at the sun during the landing and fried the camera, and a still camera clunked Al Bean on the noggin' (which might've killed him had it hit a little bit over towards the center of his forehead) because he left it hanging on the window above his head. I could go on, the lunar lander's fender broke off and had to be fixed with duct tape and the cover of a mission planner to keep the moon dust going all over the place, Apollo 14's Abort switch was sticking and had to be bypassed so they could land but still safely abort if they needed to. As for solar radiation, it's something that gets brought up a lot by the conspiracy guys, but what they don't tell you is that the Van Allen Belts extend a good deal away from the earth and dealt with most of it for the flight. Can't recall the exact figures, but the total rad exposure for the crew was in the ballpark of spending a week tanning on the beach, nowhere near a lethal dose. NASA was keeping an eye on the sun for the duration of the Apollo Missions, and if there was a flare or anything unusual going on, they wouldn't have launched. If one came up during the mission, there is a contingency plan to abort the mission and head straight back to Earth as quickly as possible to reduce any exposure. Put simply, we had an entire generation of the word's best and brightest working on Apollo, they knew their stuff, and most anything the conspiracy guys can throw out, it was already planned for or it was a non-issue or just plain nonsense. You ought to give the game REENTRY a try, it simulates Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo down to every last switch, gauge, checklist, and knob. It's definitely not easy, and I for one get a greater appreciation for just how hard it was to engineer a ship to go to the moon, and to actually fly the thing, every time I play.

[@claude5520]

We do a little trolling it's called we do a litte trolling

[@bestboy138]

One time I faked a video of my step sister being sucked into the engine of an F-35

[@nelidayupanqui1982]

La URSS, envió a la Luna en 1968, un cohete, con una Subnave Espacial esférica del Programa Espacial CCCP con tripulación. Llegó al lado obscuro y sucedió lo impensable, ocurrió una tragedia. La obra de Isaac Asimov «La Tragedia de la Luna» tal vez fue un presagio. Empero, es innegable absolutamente que los soviéticos, llegaron a la Luna, antes que USA.

[@eudaldguell3004]

En junio de 1968 con una nave zond no catalogada. Y si, sucedió el mayor secreto de la humanidad aún hoy.

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

Frank Borman was a badass. Ha. Space hooligan!